When James Turnbull had his first look at the Puppet configuration management system two years ago, he had no inkling of the extent to which he would get involved in the project. Turnbull works in the ...

Turnbull is getting ready to release a second edition of his book, Pulling Strings with Puppet: Configuration Management Made Easy. He proposed the topic to Apress because though configuration ...

In a previous article, "Provisioning Docker with Puppet", in the December 2016 issue, I covered one of the ways you can install the Docker service onto a new system with Puppet. By contrast, this ...

As part of building up the background to my recent user story about Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) and its work with Puppet, I took the opportunity to speak with Deepak Giridharagopal, Puppet’s CTO. As ...

Puppet software lets you manage the software configuration on all the hosts on your network. It simplifies repetitive operations and ensures state and configuration integrity among large number of ...

For the last few years, the game plan around the office was simple. The CEO would say “faster” and the CTO would say “cloud.” Everyone would nod and say, “Of course.” All good things come to an end.

DevOps configuration management tools help businesses automate infrastructure, manage cloud systems, reduce manual work, and improve software deployment speed. Popular platforms like Ansible, ...